[05/05/2023 07:30]

Taiz - Saba
A team from the National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations visited a number of neighborhoods close to the war frontline sites in the districts of Al-Ta'iziyah, Al-Muzaffar and Salah in Taiz Governorate.

The committee’s team, headed by committee member Ishraq Al-Maqtari, listened to the complaints of a number of citizens regarding the state of panic among civilians during the days of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr (March and April) due to the Houthi sniping and shelling that targeted their homes and roads, disheartening them from going out to hospitals and markets, or accessing basic resources and causing them physical, psychological and health damages.

The committee’s team also noticed traces and fragments of various shells on the houses of citizens lived, who experienced the horror and couldn't move to other locations due to financial hardship, and the team recorded the testimonies of the victims and witnesses whose property and places of water and food were damaged. The team received various field evidence and testimonies of the killing and injury of a number of civilians among them are women, children, the elderly and verified.

The National Commission of Inquiry expressed its condemnation of the continued indiscriminate shelling of a number of homes in the districts of Taiz, Al Hudaydah, Marib and Hajjah, which resulted in the injury and death of a number of civilians, the fall of shrapnel on the homes, the terrorization of innocent civilians, the continued non-compliance with the principles of international humanitarian law which spare civilians from the effects of violence.

The team reiterated ts call to international humanitarian organizations to provide various relief assistance to civilians in dangerous areas and to alleviate their suffering.

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